Example sentences of "in a [noun] of [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While drinking our essential morning tea and coffee we were lost in a sea of women in traditional dress with castanets . |
| 2 | Hidden in a bower of trees at the southern base of Moughton , the tiny colony of mature and mellowed buildings blends in harmony with the natural environment . |
| 3 | Jamie must have taken a cigarette even though I knew he did n't smoke , because I saw the lighter go up , igniting in front of my eves in a shower of sparks like a fireworks display . |
| 4 | He pulled himself erect and floated effortlessly across the shining surface to brake in a shower of ice-shards at their feet . |
| 5 | Ralph Meeker snapped an old man 's priceless Caruso record in half in Kiss Me Deadly , Richard Conte tortured Cornel Wilde by turning up a hearing aid and shouting into it in The Big Combo , Ingrid Bergman drank the poisoned Brazilian coffee in Notorious , Charles Laughton plunged down a lift shaft in The Big Clock , Orson Welles and Rita Hayworth shot it out in a hall of mirrors in Lady from Shanghai , Edmond O'Brien lurched into a police station to report his own murder in D.O.A. , Tony Curtis was brutally beaten by a corrupt cop in Sweet Smell of Success , Laurence Harvey jumped in the lake in The Manchurian Candidate . |
| 6 | There were more books in a nest of shelves by the bed . |
| 7 | However , the exported capital results in a transfer of profits to the UK from Germany , equal to area 10 . |
| 8 | The ASB agreed that changes in shareholders ' funds other than those included in the statement of total recognised gains and losses can also be important in understanding the change in a reporting entity 's financial position , and concluded that this additional information should be required in a reconciliation of movements in shareholders ' funds . |
| 9 | Last year one Christopher Sutton found himself stuck in a mass of bodies at Oxford Circus because all but two of the barriers were not working . |
| 10 | The Prince of Wales was staying in a suite of rooms at Craven Lodge in the middle of the town . |
| 11 | We now possess one over life-size kouros in bronze , found in Piraeus in a cache of statues of various dates and origin . |
| 12 | The care and attention given to every phrase is apparent in a selection of Etudes before an enormously conceived Vers la flamme rounds off the recital in a haze of white hot passion and intensity . |
| 13 | In the present study , these issues are examined by focusing on women in a selection of towns of different sizes and specialisations . |
| 14 | The hub of such localised society was the small market centre , grouped in a hierarchy of towns within the county . |
| 15 | To be able to perform a full schedule of aerobatics in a range of winds from 8 to 40 km/h ( 5–25mph ) , some bridle adjustment is essential for ‘ tuning ’ . |
| 16 | The Garden has particular strengths in a range of studies of cryptogamic plants ; these strengths rarely being brought together in other institutions . |
| 17 | Altogether , in 1987 some 2.35m people were employed by English , Welsh and Scottish local authorities , engaged in a range of occupations from architects , engineers and accountants to labourers , dustmen and park attendants . |
| 18 | She specialises in big baggy shirts in a range of materials from £13 up to around £20 , or culotte suits for £21 . |
| 19 | Facilities at the Templemore Sports Complex are being adapted to allow people with disabilities to take part in a range of activities including swimming , horse riding , shooting and table tennis . |
| 20 | These funds have been used to finance the work of specialist quasi-public financial institutions in a range of activities from overseas projects to long-term loans for the purchase of specialist equipment . |
| 21 | Such poor quality teaching has been described in similar terms in a range of reports by the HMI on different age sectors within the education service — on primary and middle schools , for instance — and continues to be a consistent feature of their ongoing commentary on the quality of the present teaching force . |
| 22 | According to this clinic 's publicity material , the results have been outstanding in a range of conditions including AIDS , cancer , heart disease , and even quadriplegia . |
| 23 | For the course seeks not only to prepare graduates for immediate employment in a range of positions within publishing but also to provide them with the intellectual equipment to become in the longer term the managers , the decision-makers and strategy-formulators . |
| 24 | Through the college 's catering Advisory Committee , membership of which is open to representatives of the industry , it was known that the catering establishments wanted training for restaurant managers in a range of topics from customer care to staff motivation . |
| 25 | Systems can be developed in a range of languages including ADA , PASCAL , COBOL and MODULA . |
| 26 | 17.48 ( i ) Pupils should have opportunities to write in a range of forms including a number of the following : notes , diaries , personal letters , chronological accounts , pamphlets , book reviews , advertisements , comic strips , poems , stories , playscripts. ( ii ) Building on experiences of a range of different stories that they have read and heard , and/or through discussion of their work with the teacher or their peers , pupils should learn to handle the following elements of story structure with increasing effectiveness : an opening , setting , characters , events and a resolution . |
| 27 | Dee , fourth in the English Cross Country Championships recently , also has impressive credentials in a range of events including 5,000 and 10,000 metres . |
| 28 | Case studies of screening and follow up provision will then be conducted in a range of schools in the same LEAs . |
| 29 | Made in tough , impact absorbing braided netting , Helios cylinder protectors encompass a full range of cylinder sizes catering for the needs of all breathing apparatus and Scuba users — and in a range of colours including blue , red and yellow . |
| 30 | It is important to raise questions about the ways in which policies are expressed , and the evidence required to establish the extent of implementation Policies may be conveyed to local implementers in a range of ways from , at one extreme , the explicit imposition of duties and responsibilities to , at the other end of the continuum , the very loose granting of powers which may or may not be used . |